noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
keep...in suspense
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Don’t keep us in suspense any longer!
The suspense is killing me
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What happened next? The suspense is killing me .
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
romantic
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Not always easy to categorize, her books combine gothic and romantic suspense elements often with historical settings.
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A contemporary story of mystery and romantic suspense of a woman who returns home to die and ends up learning to love.
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Her most recent books have been more in the romantic suspense vein than the gothic.
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A psychologically oriented tale of romantic suspense .
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Compare the romantic suspense novels of Mary Stewart with the international espionage tales of Ian Fleming.
■ NOUN
novel
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It is the suspense novel , a type more easily recognised than defined.
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If this notion suits you temperamentally, then try producing this sort of suspense novel .
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Compare the romantic suspense novels of Mary Stewart with the international espionage tales of Ian Fleming.
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Romantic suspense novels are escape novels.
story
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The suspense story of the Napoleonic Monkey was familiar, of course.
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Hot or not: Good cast, good creative team; a suspense story about political corruption always seems to be topical.
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Similarly, Mary Stewart produces suspense stories with equally strong mystery and romance plotlines.
■ VERB
bear
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There was a silence, and, unable to bear the suspense any longer, she raised her eyes.
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I could not bear suspense of any kind.
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Unable to bear the suspense , she hurried down into the hall.
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When I could bear the suspense no longer, I posed the final, and most significant question to her.
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I must have waited several minutes, I should have known but I couldn't bear the suspense .
keep
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So let's not keep you in suspense and join Katie prior to her departure from a surprising location for international flight.
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The play is constructed in such a way as to keep the audience in suspense until the very end.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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It is a classic story of love and suspense .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A story of love and suspense set in the South Seas.
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After 2 days' paddling and considerable suspense at last we reached the three corner point with Czechoslovakia/Hungary.
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At least it would end the awful suspense .
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It is the suspense novel, a type more easily recognised than defined.
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Sovereignty is never held in suspense .
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The suspense is cut through when he walks out on them.
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The country was tense with suspense .
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The play is constructed in such a way as to keep the audience in suspense until the very end.